aei-lectureweeks (Wiki)

Target group: PhD students and Postdocs

Jeremiah Hendrane
Date: November 17-18, 2025
Time:

• Monday:10:00 - 18:00
  
• Tuesday: 9:30 - 17:15
  

AEI Hannover 103 (Callinstrasse 38, 30167 Hannover)(Gebäude 3401))

Registration
Registration will follow.

Description
This workshop focuses on style, process, and narrative in scientific writing. Style refers to writing techniques that allow readers to understand ideas in an efficient and painless way. Process concerns strategies to make everyday research and writing as productive and enjoyable as possible. And narrative is about drawing readers in and their interest throughout a text.

Learning objectives

In this workshop, you will learn to…
(Writing Style)

• Write sentences that help your reader understand quickly and effortlessly
• Stick sentences together in a way that gets your reader into a flow
• Cut needless words
• Employ field jargon in a way that every reader can still follow

(Research & Writing Process)

• Use writing as a tool for thinking, organization, and creativity
• Break through writer’s block to make every workday fulfilling
• Use writing to read more quickly and remember the content
• Apply digital tools in a helpful yet ethical way (e.g., ChatGPT)

(Narrative in Writing)

• Tell your whole story in a few hundred words (abstracts)
• Pull the reader in to care about your work the way you do (introductions)
• Take a clear stance in a scholarly conversation (literature reviews)
• Breathe life into your text through storytelling and literary techniques